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Cassandra

“You’re nobody till somebody loves you.” This lyric’s been around for ages. It seems reminding us single people that we may as well kill ourselves is not only timeless, it’s popular.

There must be lots of nobodies out there. But how do we find each other? It’s not like we go around advertising: “Hey, I’m nobody. Want to talk to me?”

Being nobody means you don’t have a lot of options. It’s hard to meet other nobodies because we never go out. If I do have a soul mate, which seems unlikely, he’s someone I’ll see on the subway and just as I’m about to talk to him, he’ll get off. Or we’ll be seated next to each other on a plane and become close just as the pilot says there’s engine trouble, and we crash.

My soul mate is probably home right now, thinking he should go out but